Women Cinemakers, Special Edition

Page 169

interview

Women Cinemakers was a reflection on my practice based research installation . This work consisted of a hyper feminine, pink space, imitating a Catholic chapel for participants to enter and explore. It’s entrance hosted an abject latex and human hair curtain and it’s interior hosted photography film (35mm) marinated in female urine and excrement. This auto-ethnographic work interrogated ways the Catholic faith has represented the feminine and ways it has denied the non-virgin in all her horrific abjection. My time in performance research has offered a supportive space to inquire and dissect all I wish to pursue and I would suggest it to anyone looking to engage with philosophies or get creating. For this special edition of

we have

selected

, an

extremely interesting video performance that our readers have already started to get to know in the introductory pages of this article and that can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/169991789. What has at once captured our attention of your insightful inquiry into the organic level of direct experience, is the way your video escapes from traditional narrative form to pursue a sensorial richness rare in contemporary filmmaking. When walking our readers through the genesis of

, tell us

how you usually select the themes that you explore in your artworks?


Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.